Random Rant

[Ariru]

My fighter was pure str for the longest time.
But I've got tanking down easy. -nods-

I tanked a bunch of KQ bosses and kept my agro. D:

I see tanking as how well you can keep things off your party.
Not, "OMG MY DEF. MY DEFFFFFF." >_>"

I don't think build matters in tanking. D:

[Miriamele]

It's kind of irritating when some of the tank builds in KKP won't tank. My fighter is now hybrid with 50 end rest str. I have no extenders, charms, or +9 armor. If nobody else tanks, I often end up taking aggro by brute force anyway. And then we get to KKP and more often than not, the guys who are full end or have 1h+shield (sometime +9) won't even step up to tank. I've known fighters who have higher def and HP who won't tank KKP, and keeping aggro over KKP is a pretty easy task, provided you don't die... I believe in making myself a last-ditch tank if absolutely necessary because my def tops at 1.5k with 1h+shield +0 but it's not something I look forward to anymore. And there are those that are geared well for tanking that won't. Meh. I suppose I can't force anybody else to do any particular job I'd like them to do, but it still sucks because someone else could tank a lot more efficiently than me and doesn't want to.

Tl;dr we <3 you tanks D:.

[Hessah]

It's funny how at lower levels, these fighters fight to be the tank and fail by losing aggro...

by lvl 70, no one wants to tank KKP, and everyone wished there's someone else better to do the job LOL!!

[Uklyvian]

As a 25 spr, rest str fighter, I'd like to say you can't fairly judge tanking ability based on being a DD fighter. I recently tanked Dragon's Tomb pretty successfully. I was tanking spider kq at level 60, I was tanking kkp at level 70. I was always the tank in robo and I pride myself in my ability to keep mobs off the weaker classes.

With an AXE I can reach roughly 1,850 defense without charms, with a shield I can get to roughly 2,200. If I charm I can hit 3k with axe and 3.8 with shield. Mages and Archers in BR parties used to complain about their inability to even get a hit on the mob because it was dead before they could target it.

It is not all DD fighters that fail, it is the new generation that fails. Rant over.

[Hessah]

Nuu... NOT ALL DD fighters are crap... I've seen plenty of good ones out there... (for some strange reason, we're usually lucky enough to have ONE tank-able DD fighter in each KKP i've been in... except for the two that i failed LOL)

but there are also some DD fighters that are so weak they cant tank anything either.. those are the people we're complaining about -nod-

My fighter is a "DD Fighter", and I can't say I can tank MD very well at lvl 50 yet (I can tank for a bit, but towards the end when MD jump/stomp/fire spam me I always die), but at least I can scroll and get in there to help, pull aggro when main tank gets feared...

better than some other that just sits on the side and do nothing... or run into MD and die every 2 sec.. wasting cleric's time to revive them...

[Yosei]

Yes... I've seen plenty of good DD tanks. But there are those who try to do it and are terribly weak and overly enthusiastic (thus they ruin it for the rest) and/or do not even make an effort to hold aggro.

[CrazyVietFs]

<< posting this just to prove there is another pro DD fighter out there... ^^
I soled all my quest and lvl from lvl 64-72 in 3 days, and now, he stuck there while i'm lvling up all my noobs which is mostly +9 armor...
- To able to tank, you must know your limit, what you are capable off, my build are for tanking and at the same time it a DD, 50end rest are str, i got rough 1.5k def w/o charm, all my gears are end+ my armor are +9 to cover up for the shield which add +143 when lvl 70 +9 ^^ for fighter... +9 blue axe, +0 blue 1h and shield... this is all the equipment to be a good tanker even with axe...

- others than that, you must know when to time devaste or mock, or when to use "VIT" most important factor to hold agrooo, put shield 1h and axe as an hotkey, switch them constantly if you are good enough like me, i use shield and 1h to tank, use mock, and then swith to axe and devaste, after 8 second switch back to 1h, etc.. keep on doing it, watch your HP do not depend too much on cleric,
- Use of if necessary... i stock up more than 500 HP AND SP tier 3,
- Scroll plz noobs. currently have 300 tier 3 vit, and 200+tier 4vit include so much others.. don't tell me you don't have enough silver to cover up for stone, b/c if you know how to play right, you definitely able to...

- My fighter is main, but though i love tanking with my archer... +9 amor, +9 GGK bow, tier 4 buff clerics, put up tier 3 scroll... i'm invincible in Robo KQ, never a single fail... why.... i agroo all mobs, and i spam my stone lol... ^^

- Clerics lvl 60, lvl 50 amors 23str,24end,25dex +9, GOC 3 stats str/end/dex hammer... +9 lvl 50 shield.. MD Clanker, a pretty damn good cleric while clanking, I heal party member... spam stone...

- i can spam stone b/c i got more than 10+gold